Definition of Kestrels. Meaning of Kestrels. Synonyms of Kestrels

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Definition of Kestrels

Kestrel
Kestrel Kes"trel (k[e^]s"tr[e^]l), n. [See Castrel.] (Zo["o]l.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species. Note: This word is often used in contempt, as of a mean kind of hawk. ``Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with hawks.' --Bacon.

Meaning of Kestrels from wikipedia

- considered kestrels due to their general shape and habits, but are probably distinct from the true kestrels as outlined above. The American kestrel is the...
- book American Kestrels in Modern Falconry, in an article comparing kestrels to merlins, summed their abilities up as follows: 1. "Kestrels are thin-winged...
- that contains the kestrel species with black malar stripes, a feature which apparently was not present in the most ancestral kestrels. They seem to have...
- an American bicycle manufacturer The Melbourne Kestrels, an Australian netball team Viking Kestrel, a children's book imprint This disambiguation page...
- Africa, lesser kestrels favor a "latitude belt" through Senegal where locusts and gr****hoppers are plentiful. Surveys of lesser kestrels wintering in January...
- of saving the Mauritius kestrels. Tom Cade had recently learned how to breed falcons in captivity and had bred American Kestrels and felt that similar approaches...
- Riley 'Kestrel' was a brand name applied by the Riley Motor Car Company and its successors the Nuffield Organization and the British Leyland Motor Corporation...
- Kestrels. It also fit in with an American tradition of harmony vocal groups that were named after birds (the Crows, the Penguins etc.). The Kestrels'...
- Army Kestrels.  West Germany German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (aircrew parti****ted in the Tri-partite Evaluation Squadron, three allocated Kestrel aircraft...
- are probably much closer to each other than the lesser and common kestrels. Kestrels feed chiefly on terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates of appropriate...